Idiom
Grass roots.
This idioms is often used in politics, where it refers to the ordinary people or voters.
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Ms. Gill said that although she and Ms. Allen were trying to use widespread grass-roots concern about eminent domain to cajole developers into making compromises, "it won't be a cakewalk".
"The grass roots are very much concerned that it went too quickly -- they thought it was a sellout," said Saw David Tharckabaw, vice president of the Karen National Union and chief of its foreign affairs section.
"The grass roots they can generate is, frankly, concerning," Cary Sherman, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, said of the Internet community.
A three-prong approach is emerging: fight global warming by focusing on immediate, local concerns; reinvigorate the grass roots through social media and street protests; and renew an emphasis on influencing elections.
"It has a lot of force when grass roots support lets elected officials know about their problems and concerns".
"But by withholding desperately needed support for basic health care and education, those who are concerned are also missing an opportunity to engage at grass roots level.
Change the grass roots.
"It is all grass roots.
"It's grass roots.
"It was so grass roots.
"Grass roots all the way.
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